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Lucy Peltz

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Bales, Peter (bap. 1547, d. 1610?), writing-master and calligrapher, was baptized at St Michael Cornhill, London, on 15 June 1547. Parish records show that he was the eldest child of Thomas Bales of Birchin Lane, a draper and a citizen of London, and his wife, ...

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Ruth Wallis

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Cocker, Edward (1631/2–1676), calligrapher and arithmetician, is sometimes said to have come from Northamptonshire but this is unsubstantiated. Nothing is known of his parentage and early life. He published five copybooks in 1657; one, The Pen's Triumph, mentions an earlier Pen's Experience, now untraced, as his first work. By 1657 he was married, and teaching writing and arithmetic in ...

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Patrick Nairne

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Fairbank, Alfred John (1895–1982), calligrapher, was born on 12 July 1895 in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, the elder of the two sons of Alfred John Fairbank (1868–1953), engine fitter, and his wife, Emma Greetham (1863–1929), a Salvation Army officer. His parents moved to Gillingham, Kent...

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Thomas Hodgkin

revised by Helen Caroline Jones

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Hodgkin, John (1766–1845), grammarian and calligrapher, was born at Shipston-on-Stour, Worcestershire, on 11 February 1766, the son of John Hodgkin, shopkeeper and wool stapler, and his wife, Elizabeth, née Gibbs. He was educated partly at a Quakers' school at Worcester, and partly by his uncle, ...

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Alan Crawford

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Johnston, Edward (1872–1944), calligrapher and designer of lettering, was born on 11 February 1872 in San José province, Uruguay, the second of the four children of Fowell Buxton Johnston (b. 1839), army officer, and his wife, Alice Douglas (d. 1891). His paternal grandfather was ...

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Cecil H. Clough

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Ubaldini, Petruccio (fl. 1545–1599), calligrapher and writer, claimed Florentine citizenship, though he cannot be traced in Florence. The names of his parents and his date of birth are unknown. However, he was possibly born in the Florentine state, his mother may have been a ...

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